Ade Adepitan felt he had ‘let down’ disabled people after failed volcano climb
The TV presenter appeared on BBC Two series Beyond Boundaries and was challenged with climbing a volcano.
Paralympian Ade Adepitan has said he “genuinely thought” he had “let the disabled community down” after he failed to climb a volcano for a documentary series.
The Nigerian-born TV presenter and former wheelchair basketball player said the BBC Two show was called Beyond Boundaries and involved a group of people, all with different disabilities, travelling through Central America.
Speaking to Elizabeth Day on the How To Fail podcast he said: “I was on my way to leaving basketball, really in the direction of retiring in my mindset, and I wanted another challenge.
“I wanted something that would really, really push me, and I remember doing this and finding the first couple of stages quite easy. Everyone else was like struggling, moaning and whinging. I feel bad for saying this, but I loved it.”
Adepitan, 51, said they were told they would be climbing a volcano on the final day and set off at 5am and had until 2pm to get to the top.
However, the group were later told by the expedition leader they would have to go back down as they were not going to make it, according to Adepitan.
He said: “At this point I was like, ‘I’m going to have to do something I’ve never done before and that I’ve always wanted to avoid’.
